Not that this has anything to do with Islam. Meanwhile, he claims to have been taking revenge for the murdered of a Muslim boy in the U.S. If, however, that boy had not been murdered, is it likely that Lassoued would ever have become a loyal, stable, productive Belgian citizen? And why was he there […]
UK: Muslim migrant PhD student built drone that could carry bomb or chemical weapons for the Islamic State
Doesn’t Mohamad al-Bared know that poverty and ignorance cause terrorism? The idea that poverty causes terrorism, so thoroughly contradicted by this story, is a call for Western nations to write more checks to governments of Muslim countries. It’s also demonstrably false. The New York Times reported that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan […]
UK: Muslim teen encourages jihad terror on social media, found with bomb-making instructions
Where did Mohammed Afzal learn about Islam and get the idea that he should wage jihad warfare against unbelievers? British authorities have no interest in such questions, and will wave them away, if anyone has the courage and wit even to ask them, by claiming that he was “radicalized on the Internet.” All right. But […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Six)
Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. “While the Mad Fakir was rousing Swat and Buner, this powerful priest incited the Mohmands”.[1] The Mohmand were also a Pashtun tribe, against whom the British had waged war on and off since 1851, but the main operations began between 1897–1898. Though he was known […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Five)
Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. The extraordinary credulity of the people is hardly conceivable. Had the Mad Mullah called on them to follow him to attack Malakand and Chakdara they would have refused. Instead he worked miracles. He sat at his house, and all who came to visit him, brought him a […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Four)
Part One. Part Two. Part Three. The Mad Mullah was born Saidullah Khan [sometimes also known as Sadullah, or Mastun Mullah (Ecstasy Mullah), or the Sartor Fakir or Faqir (the Bare-headed Saint)] in the village of Rega Buner in the Buner Valley and was a member of a branch of the Yousafzai tribe, another Pashtun […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Three)
Part One. Part Two. In the evenings one can imagine them recounting tales of the former glory days of Islam, continues Churchill, [when] the Mullah will raise his voice and remind them of other days when the sons of the prophet drove the infidel from the plains of India, and ruled at Delhi, as wide […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part Two)
Part One is here. Churchill biographer Con Coughlin also describes their character in unflattering terms: “The Pashtuns invariably used violence to resolve their differences, which led to feuds between families lasting for generations. The Pashtun language even contains a specific word to define revenge between cousins. In many respects these frontiersmen were warriors in the […]
Winston Churchill and Islam (Part One)
In late 2001, I was sitting in the private library of the late David Littman, husband of the distinguished historian Bat Ye’or, in their beautiful villa overlooking Lake Geneva (Switzerland), when David received a phone call from his friend the official biographer of Sir Winston, Sir Martin Gilbert. Gilbert cited a memorable passage from The […]
UK: Muslim had jihad handbook, caught stockpiling chemicals for making explosives, says he rejects terrorism
Bhatti said: “I am totally opposed to terrorism. I’ve got no interest in terrorism. I don’t want it to turn into a religious lecture, but God has honoured human beings by putting them above angels. God has ruled that if you kill one person you kill the whole of mankind.” That’s Qur’an 5:32. Then Qur’an […]